as in conventional
disapproving
very similar to other things of the same kind; not original or different
a neighborhood of cookie-cutter houses Opponents accused the candidate of taking a cookie-cutter approach to the problem.
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Recent Examples of cookie-cutter
The corporate stores, with their forest-green signs and scratchboard illustrations of famous authors, used to be cookie-cutter copies of one another.
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Henry Grabar, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2026
No cookie-cutter approach The perpetual purpose trust model has more often been used by businesses — the outdoor apparel company Patagonia put one in place in 2022 — but KCT married it with a nonprofit and adapted it to fit real estate.
—Amanda Abrams, thehustle.co, 13 Mar. 2026
Consequently, this translates into the wooden and cookie-cutter characters that make up the human element of the movies.
—Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 11 Mar. 2026
There is enormous potential here for FH6 to truly set itself apart from what’s come before, in a series that, while very competent, has appeared content to repeatedly deliver a cookie-cutter experience in various locales.
—Adam Ismail, The Drive, 5 Mar. 2026
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Henry Grabar, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2026
No cookie-cutter approach The perpetual purpose trust model has more often been used by businesses — the outdoor apparel company Patagonia put one in place in 2022 — but KCT married it with a nonprofit and adapted it to fit real estate.
—Amanda Abrams, thehustle.co, 13 Mar. 2026
Consequently, this translates into the wooden and cookie-cutter characters that make up the human element of the movies.
—Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 11 Mar. 2026
There is enormous potential here for FH6 to truly set itself apart from what’s come before, in a series that, while very competent, has appeared content to repeatedly deliver a cookie-cutter experience in various locales.
—Adam Ismail, The Drive, 5 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cookie-cutter
Adjective
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The potential ground operation would reportedly fall short of a full-scale invasion but could involve raids by a mixture of Special Operations forces and conventional infantry troops, the officials were quoted as saying.—
Dylan Butts,
CNBC,
30 Mar. 2026
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But its conventional naval power looks severely degraded, while Western allies retain strong minesweeping capabilities that could be deployed to keep global trade flowing.—
Newsweek Editors,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Kelly Enders-Tharp, a three-time surrogate and education and experience specialist at Growing Generations, explains that surrogates are often stereotyped, or that their backgrounds are misrepresented.—
Kris Ann Valdez,
Parents,
13 Feb. 2026
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Later, Lenape artist Joe Baker places cutout photographs of his ancestors over the stereotyped images of Native Americans found in the wallpaper.—
Tom McDonough,
Artforum,
1 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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While legal sports books must follow regulations set by states, prediction markets have argued their trades — called event contracts — are derivative markets, and thus fall under the CFTC's jurisdiction.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
19 Mar. 2026
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Nowhere is this more the case than the energy sector that has underwritten and made possible the transformation of the Gulf states over the past half-century, and whose health remains vital to the global economy and supply chains in oil, gas and many derivative products.—
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen,
The Conversation,
19 Mar. 2026
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“Cookie-cutter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cookie-cutter. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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